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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2023
Applicant:
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Kyosuke Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Yusuke Otake, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/52 (2023.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); H04N 23/65 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/52 (2023.01); G01S 7/4816 (2013.01); H04N 23/65 (2023.01);
Abstract
A light-receiving device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a pixel array including light-receiving elements provided in respective pixels. The light-receiving elements each include a high electric field region and a photoelectric conversion region. A plurality of the light-receiving elements provided in the respective pixels includes a plurality of types of elements that have temperature regions having high photon detection efficiency (PDE). The temperature regions are different from each other and partially overlap each other.